1. Nuclear Physics Masterclass
University of Liverpool
University of Surrey
Daresbury
Birmingham University
University of York

2. Liverpool
Daresbury
Participants
6th Form
Format
5 x 3hr afternoons in term time OR 2 x 1day in half-term break
1 day (6 hours)
Capacity
30 students
80 students
Frequency
2 p.a.
1 p.a.
Talks
4 to 5 20min talks by academics plus 1 invited industry talk
2-3 talks, ranging 20 to 40 mins
Workshops
1 practical per afternoon
Rotations through practicals
Skills
Science Communication, poster or talk
Additional
Mini-conference event, posters/talks and students receive certificates
Short Quiz

3. Arrival of Schools and Welcome to Daresbury
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
09:00
Arrival of Schools and Welcome to Daresbury
Lectures "Intro to nuclear physics” & “Intro to medical imaging”
10:00
Medical Imaging wkshop
Inside the atom wkshop
Detector simulations
Gamma-ray detection wkshop
11:00
Teas/coffee
12:00
Lunch
13:00
14:00
15:00
Lecture "Nuclear energy"
Quiz and Evaluation
Close

4. Inside the Atom
Identify shape and size of a hidden object (without looking or feeling)
Roll particles at the hidden object underneath a sheet of cardboard. Draw the path of the particles
Repeat step 1 as many times as needed to identify the shape
Draw the shape

5. Gamma-ray detection workshop
Liverpool
Identifying unknown sources of radiation
Equpiment: NaI, HPGe detectors, calibration sources, samples
Students verify calibration
Handout concealed samples e.g. smoke detector, watches, soil samples
Students do a “Snap” comparison to a printed database of spectra
Surrey

7. Evaluation – Daresbury 2015
50 students, 7 teachers 82% male, 18% female

8. Evaluation – Daresbury 2015

9. Evaluation – Daresbury 2015

10. Resources Staff time PGR/UG demonstrators
Travel costs of students and/or industrial speakers
Any equipment required (typically using what is already available through existing resources)
Catering

11. Benefits
Good advert/potential recruitment for NP and your group/university
Opportunity for participants to engage with your research
Opportunity to engage with teachers and schools
Intellectually challenging opportunity for potential UG students to be upskilled for labs
Opportunity to link with STEM industry
Positive impact for UG/PGR demonstrators

12. Daresbury
Surrey
Surrey
Birmingham

13. 2017 Nuclear Physics Summer School
21st August until 2nd September at Queen’s University Belfast
Co-Organisers: Laura Harkness-Brennan and Arnau Rios
Invited lecturers: Alison Bruce, Bradley Cheal, Ren Cooper, Liz Cunningham, David Evans, David Ireland, Antonio Moro, Alessandro Pastore, Marina Petri, Achim Schwenk, Artemis Spyrou